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dark, heavy, hard, large, old, severe, pleasant, bad, good, strong, weak, little,

far, near, late, clear, hot, warm, beautiful.

VII. Ask questions covering the contents of Text 1 for your fellow-students to answer

them.

VIII. Look at the picture (p. 224) and answer the following questions:

1. Which of the four seasons is it? 2. Is the sky overcast with heavy clouds or

is it clear and bright? 3. Has the sun gone in or is it shining brightly? 4. What is

the ground covered with? 5. Are the fruit trees in blossom? 6. Do you see any

flower-beds in the picture? 7. Who do you see in the picture? 8. What are the

grown-up people doing? 9. What are the children doing? 10. Do people stay at

home in spring or do they prefer to go out into the garden? 11. How do you like to

spend your time m spring?

IX.

Look at the right-hand picture and ask one another questions

using the words and word combinations given below:

season; summer; hot, cold; the sun; to shine brightly; on the bank of the river;

to bathe, to swim; to boat, to fish (to go boating, to go fishing); to lie in the sun

(on the sand); to pick flowers; to pick (to gather) berries? and mushrooms; in the

woods; to spend one's vacation (holiday) at the seaside; to travel by car; to go

cycling; in a rest-home; on the shore.

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X. Describe the picture (p. 225) using the following words and word

combinations: <

autumn; weather; nasty; the sky; to be overcast; cold, wind, to blow; low

clouds, to drive across the sky; to rain heavily (hard); to hurry along the streets; to

wear raincoats; to carry an umbrella; to get wet through; cars, trolley-buses, buses;

to go (run) along the streets; to splash; mud; passers-by.

XI.

Look at the right-hand picture and make up a dialogue. Use the Topical

Vocabulary, Conversational Phrases and Hesitation Devices.

XI.

a) Make the following sentences interrogative and negative:

1. It is as chilly today as it was yesterday. 2. The frost will be as hard

tomorrow as it is today 3. She is as fond of frosty weather as her brother is. 4. It

has stopped raining. 5. She will be working when you come. 6. Pressure will

remain high.

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b) Ask one another questions on the fol owing sentences and answer them in the

negative. Add a sentence or two to develop a situation. Use conversational phrases:

1. It's coming on to pour. 2. There was a good fall of snow yesterday. 3. It's

still freezing hard. 4. The rain fell heavily last night. 5. It was foggy yesterday

morning. 6. It's clearing up. 7. The clouds are lifting. 8. I've got my folding

umbrella with me. 9. A thunderstorm is coming. 10. I've just read the weather-

forecast.

XIII. Put the adjectives and adverbs in brackets in the required degree of

comparison: -

1. Today the frost is (severe) than it was yesterday. 2. This book is (interesting)

of all I have read this year. 3. It snows (hard) this winter than it did last winter. 4.

January is (cold) month of the year. 5. My sister speaks English (bad) than I do. 6.

Which is (hot) month of the year? 7. Which is (beautiful) place in this part of the

country? 8. This nice-looking girl is (good) student in our group. 9. Does this

sportsman run (fast)

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than you? — Oh, yes, he is (fast) in our group, 10. The students, of our

group'll have (little) spare time this term and I (little) of all as I've got (much)

work at the scientific society.

XIV.

a) Read the following dialogue and copy out all the adjectives and adverbs

used in the comparative and the superlative degrees, b) Retell the dialogue in indirect

speech:

"Good evening, Mrs. Martin. Let me take your things. Put your bag on this

table." "How is Mr. Jones?"

"Quite well, thank you. He is not in yet. And how is your husband?" (

"He is coming in a moment. He is busier than ever."

"My husband usually comes home about six. Sometimes a little earlier. But he

never comes later than half past six."

"It is only a quarter past."

"Let us go into the sitting-room. Please, sit down in this armchair. It is the

most comfortable."

"I like your house very much. It is the quietest I know."

"There is very little traffic in our street."

"Your garden is so large. It is much larger than ours."

"But yours is more beautiful. Your trees are older and you have finer flowers."

XV.

Fill in prepositions or adverbs:

A. 1. Be careful! Don't splash mud ... passers-by. 2. A thick fog is spreading ...

the city and though cars and buses have put ... their lights they can only crawl ... .

3. It is pleasant to look ... the trees when the frost sparkles ... the branches. 4.

There is a

bridge ... the river. 5. The rivers and lakes freeze.....................winter. 6. I

don't like to be out-of-doors ... such bad weather. I prefer to stay ... home. 7.

Let us have a tramp ... the country lanes. 8. The new corn is just beginning to

appear ... the ground. 9. The ground is usually covered ... snow ... winter.

B. 1. The temperature is 25° ... zero ... the shade today. 2. Look ... the sky.

There is hardly a cloud ... it. 3. A heat wave will spread ... the south-west ...

Moscow. 4. It's beginning to rain. Put ... your umbrella. 5. The rain is ... and it's

clearing ... . 6. The weather is getting worse. The sun is going ... . 7. Look ...

picture ... page 25. What do you see ... the picture? 8. It's pouring. We shall be wet

... . 9. My aunt will stay ... our place ... two months.

XVI. Complete the following sentences using the words in brackets:

1. The sky will be clear if the wind ... (to stop). 2. I shall go to the country if

the weather ... (to be fine). 3. We shall go to the skating-rink if the frost ... (to be

not severe). 4. The snow will melt if the sun ... (to be hot). 5. You will feel warm

if you (to put on) a warm coat. 6. He will ring you up when he (to come) home. 7.

The days will be longer when summer (to come). 8. I shall go home if it (to rain).

9. We look forward to the time when spring (to come).

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XVII.

Choose the right word:

to stay — to remain

1. I have done three exercises and two ... . 2. The place was so nice that we

decided to ... there all the summer. 3. Few leaves ... on the trees and they are not

green any longer. 4. He was so tired that he ... in bed all day long. 5. The teacher

tried to make the boy speak but he ... silent. 6. It was raining so hard that I ... at

my friend's the whole night.

such — so

1. She was ... tired that she couldn't go on working. 2.1 never go for ... long

walks. 3. I didn't know that it was ... an interesting book. 4. The student spoke

English ... badly that the teacher couldn't give him even a satisfactory mark. 5. The

weather was ... nasty yesterday that I stayed at home all day long. 6. It rained ...

hard yesterday that I got wet through.

XVIII.

a) Respond to the following sentences. Develop them into dialogues. Use

conversational phrases and hesitation devices:

1. It looks like rain. 2. It's pouring, what shall we do? 3. What nasty weather